【正文】 uld still ment online, stories, and, of course, cruel sources plastered photos of me all over to sell newspapers, banner ads online, and to keep people tuned to the you recall a particular image of me, say, wearing a beret?Now, I admit I made mistakes, especially wearing that the attention and judgment that I received, not the story, but that I personally received, was was branded as a tramp, tart, slut, whore, bimbo, and, of course, that was seen by many but actually known by I get it: it was easy to forget that that woman was dimensional, had a soul, and was once this happened to me 17 years ago, there was no name for we call it cyberbullying(網(wǎng)絡(luò)欺凌)andonline harassment(網(wǎng)絡(luò)騷擾).Today, I want to share some of my experience with you, talk about how that experience has helped shape my cultural observations, and how I hope my past experience can lead to a change that results in less suffering for 1998, I lost my reputation and my lost almost everything, and I almost lost my me paint a picture for is September of 39。m sitting in a windowless office room inside the Office of the Independent Counsel underneath humming fluorescent 39。m listening to the sound of my voice, my voice on surreptitiously taped phone calls that a supposed friend had made the year 39。m here because I39。ve been legally required to personally authenticate all 20 hours of taped the past eight months, the mysterious content of these tapes has hung like the Sword of Damocles over my mean, who can remember what they said a year ago? Scared and mortified, I listen, listen as I prattle on about the flotsam and jetsam of the day。listen as I confess my love for the president, and, of course, my heartbreak。listen to my sometimes catty, sometimes churlish, sometimes silly self being cruel, unforgiving, uncouth。listen, deeply, deeply ashamed, to the worst version of myself,a self I don39。t even few days later, the Starr Report is released to Congress, and all of those tapes and trans, those stolen words, form a part of people can read the trans is horrific enough, but a few weeks later, the audio tapes are aired on TV, and significant portions made available public humiliation was was almost was not something that happened with regularity back then in 1998, and by this, I mean the stealing of people39。s private words, actions, conversations or photos, and then making them publicpublic without consent, public without context, and public without forward 12 years to XX, and now social media has been landscape has sadly bee much more populated with instances like mine, whether or not someone actually make a mistake, and now it39。s for both public and private consequences for some have bee dire, very was on the phone with my mom in September of XX, and we were talking about the news of a young college freshman from Rutgers University named Tyler , sensitive, creative Tyler was secretly webcammed by his roommate while being intimate with another the online world learned of this incident, the ridicule and cyberbullying few days later, Tyler jumped from the George Washington Bridge to his was mom was beside herself about what happened to Tyler and his family, and she was gutted with painin a way that I just couldn39。t quite understand, and then eventually I realized she was reliving 1998, reliving a time when she sat by my bed every night, reliving a time when she made me shower with the bathroom door open, and reliving a time when both of my parents feared that I would be humiliated to death, too many parents haven39。t had the chance to step in and rescue their loved many have learned of their child39。s suffering and humiliation after it was too 39。s tragic, senseless death was a turning point for served to recontextualize my experiences, and I then began to look at the world of humiliation and bullying around me and see something 1998, we had no way of knowing where this brave new technology called the Internet would take then, it has connected people in unimaginable ways, joining lost siblings, saving lives, launching revolutions, but the darkness, cyberbullying, and slutshaming that I experienced had day online, people, especially young people who are not developmentally equipped to handle this, are so abused and humiliated that they can39。t imagine living to the next day, and some, tragically, don39。t, and there39。s nothing virtual about , a nonprofit that39。s focused on helping young people on various issues,released a staggering statistic late last year: From XX to XX, there was an 87 percent increase in calls and s related to metaanalysis done out of the Netherlands showed that for the first time, cyberbullying was leading to suicidal ideations more significantly than offline you know what shocked me, although it shouldn39。t have, was other research last year that determined humiliation was a more intensely felt emotion than either happiness or even to others is nothing new, but online, technologically enhanced shaming is amplified, uncontained, and permanently echo of embarrassment used to extend only as far as your family, village, school or munity, but now it39。s the online munity of people, often anonymously, can stab you with their words, and that39。s a lot of pain, and there are no perimeters around how many people can publicly observe you and put you in a public is a very personal price to public humiliation, and the growth of the Internet has jacked up that nearly two decades now, we have slowly been sowing the seeds of shame and public humiliation in our cultural soil, both onand websites, paparazzi, reality programming, politics, news outlets and sometimes hackers all traffic in 39。s led to desensitization and a permissive environment online which lends itself to trolling, invasion of privacy, and shift has created what Professor Nicolaus Mills calls a culture of a few prominent examples just from the past six months , the service which is used mainly by younger generationsand claims that its messa